Trying alternate routes to get to work and outsmart the TTC construction schedules? Not as easy as it sounds.
Apparently the new Radiohead album is titled Hail To The Thief. Subtle. It sounds more like a Rage Against The Machine name than a Radiohead one.
And you know what? I can’t think of a blasted thing to say today.
np – Broken Social Scene / You Forgot It In People
Okay, tell me this isn’t the cutest picture ever.
I promised Azra I would publicly harangue myself for not knowing that The Family Guy was on every night Sunday through Thursday on The Comedy Channel at 9pm. I feel shame.
So I went down to the rehearsal space tonight not for practice, but to play open house and show the room to a couple guys interested in moving in. That and try playing drums again… alls I can say is any progress I’d made in my drumming at the end of last year? Gone. Pffft. It was shameful. But I’ll trade my opportunities to fuck around on the kit for a full-time drummer in the band every day of the week and twice on Tuesday.
I got the Luna tour posters I bought from Seripop in Montreal. They’re quite nice prints and apparently they glow in the dark!
np – Calla / Televise
Another sure sign of Spring – the hot dog vendor is back on the street corner opposite my office! There’s nothing like all-day access to all-beef street meat. Nothing at all.
Longwave are coming back to Toronto again on April 22. That’ll be three times in just over four months – talk about your market saturation. This one’s another free show at the Horseshoe, which is good because that means I don’t have to commit to going until the day of. And it’s free. Seeing as how that one would make it four shows in eleven days, I make no guarantees about my attendance.
np – The Dismemberment Plan / Emergency & I
I picked up the classic Marvin Gaye album today, the sentiment is still as timely today as it was 30 years ago. And it’s a magnificent sounding record. Also got the first Cars album – it was a day for classics, yes it was. And to round things off, I also got Conmemorativo, the first Gram Parsons tribute record, with a decidedly more countrified lineup than the more recent Return Of The Grievous Angel collection. But it has Uncle Tupelo doing a splendid cover of “Blue Eyes”, so it’s worth the price of admission right there. And also Bob Mould and Vic Chesnutt tackling “Hickory Wind”. The songs are so good it’s usually a treat to hear anyone do them.
So the King streetcar tracks are going to be out of commission till late May, meaning I have to add the extra 10 minutes it’ll take to walk from St. Andrew station to work into my morning schedule. Hooray.
np – PJ Harvey / To Bring You My Love
A day later and I still like the new design. Unprecedented. Hopefully this will last me the summer. Even after the grand unveiling yesterday, I spent most of the day and evening debugging stupid little things. The search function now works though why I had to do what I did to get it to do so is beyond me. Not really thrilled about going deep into Nucleus’ source code and commenting out lines that were fine before, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
I did get out of the house for a bit yesterday though – went for breakfast at Mars, and on the way back home I had to walk east along College while the day’s anti-war protest marched west. I felt a little strange going upstream, trying to move against the wall of chanting humanity, but I’m sorry – I live the other way and I need to use washroom.
I did step out last night to catch Cuff The Duke at the Rivoli. I’d heard nothing from them before, only read the press but they sounded up my alley. And while the show got off to a bit of a slow, sloppy start (first impression – poor man’s Sadies), by the end I was pretty much sold by the energetic set of countrified cowpunk. The fact that it was a homecoming of sorts for the Oshawans after a jaunt to SXSW in Austin and the room was packed with their friends and fans contributed to a great atmosphere.
Looks to be a beautiful day out, I should get out and get some air but I’ll probably just stay in and (re-)do my taxes or something boring like that
np – Television / Television
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